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Chicago examiner o t rn i la i raj . vol xiii no 106 a m saturday Chicago april 24 1915 saturday registered c b patent office â– 0a m | price one cent gjs 3 million to roosevelt like giving t y.m.c.a 100,000 each given by morgan and harriman to aid his 1904 campaign fund he says declares he didn't need money though for election was a certainty before nomination barnes is called a jekyll-hyde politician whom ex-president tried to save from evil by james j montague staff correspondent of the interna tional seiv service syracuse n y april 23.â€”gaz ing fixedly at the jury which will decide whether he has libeled wil liam barnes to the tune of 50,000 theodore roosevelt announced this afternoon that for corporations to give 3,000,000 to his campaign fund was precisely like giving the money to the y m c a the corporation men who raised this colossal sum to elect him presi dent in 1904 included j p morgan & co george w perkins e h harriman charles s mellen for the new haven road andrew carnegie the steel crowd of pittsburgh and . many others who later were classed as malefactors of great wealth the standard oil company also chipped in 100,000 but this the colo nel insisted was indignantly returned mr roosevelt later admitted that thomas f ryan's gift of 500,000 to the campaign of parker who was the democratic candidate in 1901 was also in the nature of a y m c a do nation this got the fact into the record that parker had also been helped by big business unruffled under the strenuous at tempts of barnes attorney ivins to show that he had not only accepted corporation favors like any boss but had actually been a ruthless and un compromising boss himself the colo nel waged a savage defensive war fare and when the court adjourned for the week he appeared to be sat isfied that his lines are still holding helped make barnes in answer to charges direct or im plied mr roosevelt made the fol lowing denials 1 that he had bossed ttie Chicago convention which nominated Taft he admitted however that he had contributed very largely to the re sult -. that he had ever hcen influ enced by dictate of auy boss or had dickered with any boss for nny thing whatever 8 that cither blisa or corteiyon w*o collected the 3,000,000 tribute in 1004 had ever asked him to take any action in behalf of any uf the contributors 4 that he even lifted his little finger to secure the republican nomination in 1004 also he said that he regarded barnes as a jekyll and hyde in re sponse to a question which gave him that opportunity i appointed mr barnes to office surveyor of the port of albany the colonel told the jury and until 1910 i hoped to get the dr jekyll barnes uppermost i did not aban don that hope till 1911 by way of another rap at the plain tiff he said that he regarded him as at least on the same level as the average business man of the times he said that he distinctly did not in clude barnes in a list of piatt lieu tenants of most efficient men of * high moral character which appears in one of the colonel's numerous books hi shks at colonel from the beginning of the cross examination to-day ivins went at the colonel hammer and tongs with the clear purpose of convicting him of all the charges he has made against barnes mr roosevelt was moved to say that the corporations gifts to ms campaign fund was like unto of ferings to the y m c a when mr ivins had brought out that nearly every corporation engaged in big business had dispensed free will of ferings into the hats passed by mr certelyou chairman and mr bllaa deering steward harvester man obtains decree couple separated five years lived across street from each other at piano the matrimonial troubles of deering steward president of the independent harvester company ended yesterday in divorce for five years steward and his wife had been separated by the width of a street in piano steward's house was on the east side of the street hers on the west religious differences it is said produced the incompatibility which was the basis of the suit steward got the decree but the two children deering jr and marsh seventeen and fourteen years old were awarded to their mother both he and his wife were in court at yorkville there was no emotional scene and the testimony was of the cut-and-dried order usual in uncontested cases a year ago marsh steward broth er of deering obtained a divorce from florence schiffman steward on grounds of desertion last jan uary he married louise warnock a motion picture actress woman's counsel in rule reinberg plea a man can't run a government without the counsel of women any more than he can a home i would rather have the advice of one good level-headed woman than of half a dozen men such was the declaration of presi dent peter reinberg of the county board yesterday whereupon he dic tated letters to several hundred lead ing women of Chicago asking their advice on proposed bond issues for a new county jail and county hospital improvements the country is drifting onto the rocks said reinberg the women old truck horse says mayor at 55 mayor harrison was fifty-five years j i old yesterday but he refused lo ac | cept congratulations i'm too old he explained i'm i like an old truck horse that has been hitched to a dray for a long time i and is now entitled to clover blue ' grass â€” and mint he also explained that he was not bigoted about the use of old virginia applejack in mint juleps â€” that some times he uses good old bourbon the massive mahogany desk in his office a christmas present from | j friends will be moved out monday j afternoon policecan't find star she does in stocking six policemen a lawyer and a search warrant were unable to find the star of a municipal court deputy bailiff after it had been snatched i from his coat by mrs katherine bodek during a battle in her home 9313 greenwood avenue yesterday then the woman calmly took the star out of her stocking and handed it to the court attache the fight was precipitated when the bailiff at tempted to levy upon mrs bodek's furniture to satisfy a judgment for groceries she had purchased mayor tells hot stove he made good my dear jimmie in the language of the broad and opulent west you have sure made good there is neither hot air nor hot stove about this carter h harrison that is the letter james aloysius quinn got from the mayor yesterday in recognition of the 149,000 worth of oil inspection fees he turned into the city treasury during the four years of his service i promised i wouldn't graft and i didn't said quinn warmest night of middle west here after the sun had set last night the temperature in Chicago was the same as that of montgomery ala and this was the warmest city in the middle west at 7 o'clock the federal build ing tower thermometer registered so at that hour the same mark was re corded in montgomery a general southerly wind was held responsible yesterday's highest tempeiature here was 84 summer weather is promised for the next forty-eight hour.t i county jobs bought is suit charge night watchman sues former secretary tansey and ex-alder man strauss to recover 90 i paid them 100 to get me day work and they failed he says avers he was beaten i never saw him i threw him out of my office says tan sey strauss denies payment john p tansey former secretary of the county democratic central committee and joseph strauss for mer alderman and legislator are defendants in one of the strangest suits ever filed in the municipal court henry phillips a night watchman in the county building demands 90 of the pair he says he gave them 100 upon their representation that tansey could get him a day job that they did not get him transferred to day work and that they returned only 10 of his money adolph marks attorney for phil lips said yesterday that he would file to-day an amended statement of claim setting forth in detail the con tentions of phillips only the prae cipe has been filed phillips who lives at 152n north maplewood avenue is sixty-five years old his wife is a cripple he was appointed by sheriff zim'mer and is paid 75 a month his wife being an invalid he desfres day work says he was beaten tansey and strauss conduct a safety deposit and real estate busi j ness at 2501 west division street i until april 1 they had a real estate | and insurance office in the otis building 1 was told tansey could fix it for | me so 1 could work days said phil lips yesterday i went to see strauss who is also powerful in the i fifteenth ward he took me to ! tansey i gave tansey two 50 bills | and was told i would be taken care ot then they began putting me oft and always telling me to wait they never did get my job changed on april 1 i went to strauss and told him i needed 10 badly he gave it to me the next day i went to i their office again and tansey beat me he hit me in the face and broke a tooth a man interfered and mixed with tansey that man will testify for me know other cases the day i brought my suit â€” april 19 â€” tansey got me fired and had a man named kaplan put in my place when my friends told sheriff traeger how it was he put me back to work since i filed my suit i have been told ; that lots of others have had the same experience 1 know of one man who paid 300 for a job a republican can get a job as easily as a democrat if he pays tansey in his office was questioned by telephone - yes i have heard about the suit he said i never saw phillips in my life i don't know him don't you remember his coming to your oftice on april 2 and your strik ing him ' \ yes replied tansey i do recall the incident but 1 didn't strike him he became abusive and i threw him out of the office that's all strauss then came to the telephone he's xo good that man is no good he said he has been an enemy of mine for years he never paid me a cent this is one of many complaints of petty graft that have come to my at tention said attorney marks and 1 would not have started the action had i not made a careful investigation and found merit in phillips case joseph strauss was the unsuccess ful contestant for the senate seat in the present legislature from the twenty-third district detectives called in high school theft advertising in a school paper for ' the return of a camera stolen from a i desk in the john marshall high school wednesday has proved fruitless so i louis j block the principal deter j mined to find the thief has asked board of education detectives to aid him rumors of the drastic action \ caused excitement among tb stu j dent research pastdr with girl fined rev frank p toleen comes to grief when arrested on so ciological tour of the city arrested at entrance of hotel he ) explains he is making notes i for his sunday sermon *~~~~~ madge kennedy accosted on j street says she's out of work | so she is told to leave Chicago i another ministerial tour of Chicago â€” object first hand sociological re search â€” came to grief last night the rev frank p toleen who said he was a swedish baptist minister temporarily without a church was the commander of the ill-fated expe dition he had just signed up a crew ln the person of miss madge fuller who said she lived at the c'ommer cial hotel when pirates in the guise of detectives mcgurn and carlin took both into custody there is considerable analogy be [ tween the researches of the rev mr toleen and the rev mr trout of lanark 111 the rev mr trout however suffered only mental anguish in the shape of dismissal from his place in the brethren church and threats of a suit for breach of promise by miss babe maxwell the companion of many of his sociological cruises while it cost the rev mr toleen 5 in hard cash detectives mcgurn and carlin were strolling in wabash avenue near van buren their__kÂ£r.iscopes scanning the thoroughfares for just such craft as that of the reverend investi gator when they observed him ap proach a comely young woman and raise his hat in a practiced fashion not at all suggestive of the pulpit shot across this bow the woman stopped and the pair turned and went toward the congress hotel they were about to enter when the pirate detectives fired a shot across their bow i am a minister of the gospel said the rev mr toleen indignantly i am merely studying the moral con ditions of Chicago gathering material for a sermon i am making a so ciological study of your great city sure we know responded the detectives tell it to judge martin in the night court he's a great sociologist too gets no pity the minister repeated his story to judge martin but the latter couldn't see it i'll make it easy he said five dollars and costs toleen said that he lived at 434 melrose street this address is a va cant lot and no one in the neigh borhood had ever heard of him he does not show in the city or tele phone directories miss fuller said that she had been a member of a theatrical company which had been stranded here judge martin discharged her when she promised to leave Chicago seymour morris sues for auto accident when seymour morris jr leads miss margaret armour of evanston to the matrimonial altar next fall there may be a special fund of 10,000 or so to furnish the flat or to pay for the honeymoon â€” if â€” anyway morris filed the declara tion yesterday in his 10,000 damage suit against leonard fish and e f andrews who he says carelessly negligently and recklessly operated an automobile in such fashion he was badly hurt . the accident happened in february 1914 in drexel boulevard bandits hold up train shoot one interantionnl newa service dlfapatch xew orleans april 23 â€” two ne groes who had not been captured up to 1 o'clock this morning held up and robbed the louisville & nash ville train from cincinnati in this city to-night shot and mortally wounded peter molly express mes senger and dropped two sticks of dynamite on the floor which did not no off the negroes secured about 50 and dropped a sack containing j 10,000 they fled when the train i crew started shooting john cudahy pioneer packer is dead at 71 veteran Chicago business man succumbs to illness of three years duration john cudahy a pioneer director of the cudahy packing company interests and long prominent in the Chicago business world died at his home 3254 michigan avenue at 11:30 o'clock last night he was seventy-one years old cudahy's death was declared by physicians to have been the result of an operation for appendicitis three years ago complications set j in almost immediately and he never regained his health he went to california three weeks ago but was forced to return to Chicago when he suffered a sudden relapse j ' surviving him are his widow mrs margaret cudahy two daugh ! ters miss elizabeth cudahy and ! mrs julia walsh and two sons i john r and gerald cudahy all of i whom are prominent in Chicago society he was a member of the union league south shore mid lothian and ulen view clubs mrs morrow buys mansion for 20,000 mrs rena bacon morrow prin cipal in one of the most sensational murder trials in the history of chi cago yesterday bought a dwelling at grand boulevard and forty-eighth place in the heart of the south side society colony paying 20,000 the grand boulevard house is in one of chicago's oldest fashionable districts among the prominent per sons still residing in that locality are judge joseph sabath 4828 grand boulevard milton c kaufman 4828 william h vehon 4824 harry c wild 2414 edward g elcock 4806 j fred arthur poor 4800 and j l kes ner 4756 l __ roosevelt advissr taken ill in Chicago james bronson reynolds of new yoik formerly secretary to mayor low and special adviser to president roosevelt on municipal and social questions was taken ill yesterday at the congress hotel his condition improved last night accompanied by his wife he expects to leave to-day for battle creek he is counsel for the american social hygiene associa tion and was to have spoken on pub lic morals before the city club yes terday elizabeth mccormick escapes auto mishap miss elizabeth mccormick daugh ter of mr and mrs r hall mccor mick 660 rush street narrowly es caped death thursday she was riding in an automobile along lake shore drive with mrs herbert e schwarz and the hitter's mother miss mccor mick leaned against a door of the auto the door flew open and she fell into the road fortunately no other cars were passing she had recov ered from the necvous shock last night mrs kellogg leaves daughter 400,000 i a daughter granddaughter and five | friends are beneficiaries of 400,000 ; left by mrs sarah h kellogg widow lof the late charles i kellogg the j income will go to lois kellogg her daughter divorced wife of pierpont isham who resumed her maiden name miss lois kellogg isham granddaughter of mrs kellogg is to inherit the estate after her mother's death i j d rockefeller in 200-mile auto ride international newa service diapateh tarrytown n y april 23 john d rockefeller is at baypond . the camp of his brother william rockefeller he drove the 200 miles in his auto and enjoyed it so well thut he intends to return the same i way on sunday lt was the longest i auto ride he has ever taken i government sued by 3 banks for war taxes Chicago institutions call levy against 40,000,000 under 1914 law unconstitutional federal state and city bonds and property not used in banking exempt they claim â€¢-â€” -- ~ - suits will test right to assess much of capital and surplus of 25,000 concerns three suits attacking the constitu tionality of the war revenue tax of 1914 so far as it affects the capital stock of banks were begun in the united states district court yester day in the name of the continental & commercial national bank the continental & commercial trust & savings bank and the hibernian banking association and involving the immunity from taxation under the act of 40,669,020 levy mayer of mayer meyer aus trian & piatt who brought suit against julius f smietanka internal revenue collector for the district of Chicago said that the case would be pushed in the district court so that it might be carried to the supreme court for immediate adjudication the taxes paid by the three insti tutions february 1 for the eight months ending june 30 1915 and which according to the declaration were wrongfully collected are con tinental & commercial national 21,657.34 continental & commer cial trust & savings 3,254 and hi bernian banking association 2,171.24 federal exemption claimed the tax assessed is one-tenth of 1 per cent a year or two-thirds of that amount for th first eight months it is operative therefore the taxes represent one-fifteenth hundredth of the total amount of federal state and municipal bonds which the banks maintain are exempt from taxation together with other property owned by the banks but not used in the banking business a part of the al leged exempted property is the con tinental ft commercial national bank building it is further alleged that the bonds under a strict interpretation also are not used in banking the banks hold these properties inherently immune from federal taxation the declarations state that united states commissioner of internal revenue csborn and collector smie tai'ua made tax assessment for the amounts specified and required the banks to pay them under protest that on march 5 a demand for a re fund was made which was refused march 29 affects 23,000 banks this is the first attack of the kind uopn the 1914 revenue act said mayer last evening the cases are test suits and upon their final de cision will depend the right of the government to tax a large part of the capital and surplus of the 25,000 banks in the united states lt is estimated that several hun dred millions of dollars of capital of the different banks in the united states it invested in securities that are tax exempt and that are not used or employed in the business of the various banks an effort will be made to bring the cases to a speedy adjudication in the district court so that the side that loses can take the matter to the su preme court for final action taxes for the year beginning july 1 1915 are due at that time and the banks are especially anxious to get a final verdict on the constitutionality of the revenue act before then four held for theft of diamond on street detectives sheehan doran and al dus who went on the run to west ; twelfth street and south ashland boulevard yesterday where a fight i was reported to be in progress were i met by james shannon 1214 laflin | street who said he had been beaten by five men and robbed of a diamond i pin the detectives arrested four ' men rockefeller jr called brains of mine strike investigating committee to recall him on discovery of pointed evidence international rn-a service diapateh kansas city mo april 23 letters and telegrams exchanged between john d rockefeller jr and officials of the colorado fuel & iron company which to-day came into the possession of frank p walsh chairman of the united states commission on industrial re lations contain revelations bearing on the recent colorado coal strike of so startling a nature as to de cide walsh to recall rockefeller to the stand when the commission re sumes its public hearings in wash ington may 4 the correspondence shows mr walsh said to-night that john d rockefeller jr who testified that he had kept his hands off the situation was ln reality the directing mind that he exercised a personal in fluence which extended even to the state house in denver and pre sumed to dictate letters that went out to the president of the united states and to the governors of states over the signature of the governor of colorado that he withheld from the de partment of labor in washington information asked for when secre tary wilson sought to avert the strike before it began thrilling novel is written by women it is a thrilling adventure story â€” the novel written by the members of the neighbors club the chapters which had been as signed to individuals of the organiza tion some weeks ago were read in yesterday's meeting in the home cf mrs h j browning 602 west six tieth place the production is said to back conan doyle and katherine green off the mystery story map the novel was named the count's adventure it is a mystery story with two love affairs mrs edward hart jones wrote the introduction and mrs joseph salkeld the conclusion u s officers back from german front international ncwa scrvice dispatch new york april 23 â€” captain s d rockenbach united states cavalry and captain s g shartle united states coast artillery military ob servers with the german army recent ly recalled by president wilson were passengers aboard the holland-amer ican liner rotterdam to-day both denied that there was any reason for their recall other than that their duties were over mystery surround ed the arrival of p m kuehnrich a special courier from the united states embassy at berlin en route to wash ington it was said he carried im portant messages huerta is barred from white house international news service diapateh washington april 23.â€”victori ano huerta will not be received at the white house should be apply there to-morrow this information was obtained to-day from an author itative but unofficial source huerta was severe in his personal comments ] on the president according to the | j diplomatic advices received oonfi j i dentially at the time huerta was in i control in mexico and mr wilson is l thought to have resented this ultimatum gent to china by japan pekin april 23 dr hioki jap anese minister has handed to the chi nese foreign minister a demand for a complete acceptance of japan's re vised proposals with the understand ing that otherwise negotiations will be broken off immediately japan has offered to enter into further ne gotiations on minor points in the event of a full acceptance women in denmark win fight for vote ' international news service diapateh copenhagen april 23 the j danish diet adopted to-day an l amendment to the constitution giv ing the vote to women and conferring upon them the right of election to the diet this amendment must be passed by the new diet to be elected next month before it becomes ef fective germans victory equal to soissons â€” french forced back five miles and across yser canal four towns and 1,600 soldiers are captured near ypres allies attribute defeat to use of asphyxiating gases sir john french claiming that german bombs violate laws of war kaiser pours flood of troops across belgium apparently staking all on new drive in the famous ypres salient international news service dispatch london april 23 the germans north of y'pres have forced the allies back five miles the loss is guard edly admitted in reports from paris and from general sir john french berlin statements assert the claim of gains unqualifiedly adding that four villages â€” langemarck steenstrate het sas and pilken â€” were captured in the new german drive 1,600 french and english soldiers made prisoner and the western bank of the canal seized by the germans the new german offensive waa launched on the northern angle of the famous ypres salient scene of many terrific battles during the fighting preceding the closing ln of winter german critics set this up as tha german reply to neuve chapelle it measures up with the german victory at soissons they assert british and french reports dis count whatever glory the germans may claim from the victory by tho charge that it was gained through the use of appliances for the pro duction of asphyxiating gases which is prohibited under the terms of tho hague conventions hill 60 fiery volcano fighting continued about hill no 60 it was the most terrific two days of warfare since neuve chapelle the carnage was terrible batteries blazed fire shell and death one min ute and the next were themselves blown into shattered tangles of charred timber and twisted metal with writhing masses of humanity scattered about trenches were blasted and made humanly untenable j while their late occupants wera i mowed down by machine gun fire i the din was horrifying deafening â€” i hell broke loose the paris afternoon statement as j serts that the french were forced to j retire to the tser canal they pre i viously held positions five miles ih advance of the canal bank the night i report declares no grave conse quences have been suffered from tha german attack and that french and british forces have made gains to the ! northward between steenstraate and j the ypres-poel capelle road | germans staking all telegraphing the daily express from the belgian frontier percival * phillips says the entire area west of the brus.es courtrai road is said to be literally flooded with germans messages reaching me by indirect routes from antwerp and brussels describe a con tinuous passage of roop trains from eastern belgium those v antwerp are leaving there after nightfalv the germans appear to be stak j ing everything on this tremendous i | effort m violate warfare.savs klli:m the press bureau to-night madefl public the following dispatch fromw sir john french under to-day's date 1 yesterday evening the enemy de veloped an attack on the french troops on our left in the neighbor , i hood of bixschoote and langemarck north of the ypres salient this at i tack was preceded by a heavy bom-a ' bardment the enemy at tha samefl time making use of a number of ap-h pliances for the production of asfl phxyiating gas fl the quantity produced indicates long and deliberate preparation for 1 the employment of devices contrary i to the terms of the hague omven i tinn to ti'hiobfct fmy subscribed the false made by q*m the weather Chicago and vicinity â€” fair to-Â«ln.v and probably to-morrow continued warm moderate aouth erly winda . , yesterday's temperatures i highest st lowest 64 average 74 it 1

Chicago examiner o t rn i la i raj . vol xiii no 106 a m saturday Chicago april 24 1915 saturday registered c b patent office â– 0a m | price one cent gjs 3 million to roosevelt like giving t y.m.c.a 100,000 each given by morgan and harriman to aid his 1904 campaign fund he says declares he didn't need money though for election was a certainty before nomination barnes is called a jekyll-hyde politician whom ex-president tried to save from evil by james j montague staff correspondent of the interna tional seiv service syracuse n y april 23.â€”gaz ing fixedly at the jury which will decide whether he has libeled wil liam barnes to the tune of 50,000 theodore roosevelt announced this afternoon that for corporations to give 3,000,000 to his campaign fund was precisely like giving the money to the y m c a the corporation men who raised this colossal sum to elect him presi dent in 1904 included j p morgan & co george w perkins e h harriman charles s mellen for the new haven road andrew carnegie the steel crowd of pittsburgh and . many others who later were classed as malefactors of great wealth the standard oil company also chipped in 100,000 but this the colo nel insisted was indignantly returned mr roosevelt later admitted that thomas f ryan's gift of 500,000 to the campaign of parker who was the democratic candidate in 1901 was also in the nature of a y m c a do nation this got the fact into the record that parker had also been helped by big business unruffled under the strenuous at tempts of barnes attorney ivins to show that he had not only accepted corporation favors like any boss but had actually been a ruthless and un compromising boss himself the colo nel waged a savage defensive war fare and when the court adjourned for the week he appeared to be sat isfied that his lines are still holding helped make barnes in answer to charges direct or im plied mr roosevelt made the fol lowing denials 1 that he had bossed ttie Chicago convention which nominated Taft he admitted however that he had contributed very largely to the re sult -. that he had ever hcen influ enced by dictate of auy boss or had dickered with any boss for nny thing whatever 8 that cither blisa or corteiyon w*o collected the 3,000,000 tribute in 1004 had ever asked him to take any action in behalf of any uf the contributors 4 that he even lifted his little finger to secure the republican nomination in 1004 also he said that he regarded barnes as a jekyll and hyde in re sponse to a question which gave him that opportunity i appointed mr barnes to office surveyor of the port of albany the colonel told the jury and until 1910 i hoped to get the dr jekyll barnes uppermost i did not aban don that hope till 1911 by way of another rap at the plain tiff he said that he regarded him as at least on the same level as the average business man of the times he said that he distinctly did not in clude barnes in a list of piatt lieu tenants of most efficient men of * high moral character which appears in one of the colonel's numerous books hi shks at colonel from the beginning of the cross examination to-day ivins went at the colonel hammer and tongs with the clear purpose of convicting him of all the charges he has made against barnes mr roosevelt was moved to say that the corporations gifts to ms campaign fund was like unto of ferings to the y m c a when mr ivins had brought out that nearly every corporation engaged in big business had dispensed free will of ferings into the hats passed by mr certelyou chairman and mr bllaa deering steward harvester man obtains decree couple separated five years lived across street from each other at piano the matrimonial troubles of deering steward president of the independent harvester company ended yesterday in divorce for five years steward and his wife had been separated by the width of a street in piano steward's house was on the east side of the street hers on the west religious differences it is said produced the incompatibility which was the basis of the suit steward got the decree but the two children deering jr and marsh seventeen and fourteen years old were awarded to their mother both he and his wife were in court at yorkville there was no emotional scene and the testimony was of the cut-and-dried order usual in uncontested cases a year ago marsh steward broth er of deering obtained a divorce from florence schiffman steward on grounds of desertion last jan uary he married louise warnock a motion picture actress woman's counsel in rule reinberg plea a man can't run a government without the counsel of women any more than he can a home i would rather have the advice of one good level-headed woman than of half a dozen men such was the declaration of presi dent peter reinberg of the county board yesterday whereupon he dic tated letters to several hundred lead ing women of Chicago asking their advice on proposed bond issues for a new county jail and county hospital improvements the country is drifting onto the rocks said reinberg the women old truck horse says mayor at 55 mayor harrison was fifty-five years j i old yesterday but he refused lo ac | cept congratulations i'm too old he explained i'm i like an old truck horse that has been hitched to a dray for a long time i and is now entitled to clover blue ' grass â€” and mint he also explained that he was not bigoted about the use of old virginia applejack in mint juleps â€” that some times he uses good old bourbon the massive mahogany desk in his office a christmas present from | j friends will be moved out monday j afternoon policecan't find star she does in stocking six policemen a lawyer and a search warrant were unable to find the star of a municipal court deputy bailiff after it had been snatched i from his coat by mrs katherine bodek during a battle in her home 9313 greenwood avenue yesterday then the woman calmly took the star out of her stocking and handed it to the court attache the fight was precipitated when the bailiff at tempted to levy upon mrs bodek's furniture to satisfy a judgment for groceries she had purchased mayor tells hot stove he made good my dear jimmie in the language of the broad and opulent west you have sure made good there is neither hot air nor hot stove about this carter h harrison that is the letter james aloysius quinn got from the mayor yesterday in recognition of the 149,000 worth of oil inspection fees he turned into the city treasury during the four years of his service i promised i wouldn't graft and i didn't said quinn warmest night of middle west here after the sun had set last night the temperature in Chicago was the same as that of montgomery ala and this was the warmest city in the middle west at 7 o'clock the federal build ing tower thermometer registered so at that hour the same mark was re corded in montgomery a general southerly wind was held responsible yesterday's highest tempeiature here was 84 summer weather is promised for the next forty-eight hour.t i county jobs bought is suit charge night watchman sues former secretary tansey and ex-alder man strauss to recover 90 i paid them 100 to get me day work and they failed he says avers he was beaten i never saw him i threw him out of my office says tan sey strauss denies payment john p tansey former secretary of the county democratic central committee and joseph strauss for mer alderman and legislator are defendants in one of the strangest suits ever filed in the municipal court henry phillips a night watchman in the county building demands 90 of the pair he says he gave them 100 upon their representation that tansey could get him a day job that they did not get him transferred to day work and that they returned only 10 of his money adolph marks attorney for phil lips said yesterday that he would file to-day an amended statement of claim setting forth in detail the con tentions of phillips only the prae cipe has been filed phillips who lives at 152n north maplewood avenue is sixty-five years old his wife is a cripple he was appointed by sheriff zim'mer and is paid 75 a month his wife being an invalid he desfres day work says he was beaten tansey and strauss conduct a safety deposit and real estate busi j ness at 2501 west division street i until april 1 they had a real estate | and insurance office in the otis building 1 was told tansey could fix it for | me so 1 could work days said phil lips yesterday i went to see strauss who is also powerful in the i fifteenth ward he took me to ! tansey i gave tansey two 50 bills | and was told i would be taken care ot then they began putting me oft and always telling me to wait they never did get my job changed on april 1 i went to strauss and told him i needed 10 badly he gave it to me the next day i went to i their office again and tansey beat me he hit me in the face and broke a tooth a man interfered and mixed with tansey that man will testify for me know other cases the day i brought my suit â€” april 19 â€” tansey got me fired and had a man named kaplan put in my place when my friends told sheriff traeger how it was he put me back to work since i filed my suit i have been told ; that lots of others have had the same experience 1 know of one man who paid 300 for a job a republican can get a job as easily as a democrat if he pays tansey in his office was questioned by telephone - yes i have heard about the suit he said i never saw phillips in my life i don't know him don't you remember his coming to your oftice on april 2 and your strik ing him ' \ yes replied tansey i do recall the incident but 1 didn't strike him he became abusive and i threw him out of the office that's all strauss then came to the telephone he's xo good that man is no good he said he has been an enemy of mine for years he never paid me a cent this is one of many complaints of petty graft that have come to my at tention said attorney marks and 1 would not have started the action had i not made a careful investigation and found merit in phillips case joseph strauss was the unsuccess ful contestant for the senate seat in the present legislature from the twenty-third district detectives called in high school theft advertising in a school paper for ' the return of a camera stolen from a i desk in the john marshall high school wednesday has proved fruitless so i louis j block the principal deter j mined to find the thief has asked board of education detectives to aid him rumors of the drastic action \ caused excitement among tb stu j dent research pastdr with girl fined rev frank p toleen comes to grief when arrested on so ciological tour of the city arrested at entrance of hotel he ) explains he is making notes i for his sunday sermon *~~~~~ madge kennedy accosted on j street says she's out of work | so she is told to leave Chicago i another ministerial tour of Chicago â€” object first hand sociological re search â€” came to grief last night the rev frank p toleen who said he was a swedish baptist minister temporarily without a church was the commander of the ill-fated expe dition he had just signed up a crew ln the person of miss madge fuller who said she lived at the c'ommer cial hotel when pirates in the guise of detectives mcgurn and carlin took both into custody there is considerable analogy be [ tween the researches of the rev mr toleen and the rev mr trout of lanark 111 the rev mr trout however suffered only mental anguish in the shape of dismissal from his place in the brethren church and threats of a suit for breach of promise by miss babe maxwell the companion of many of his sociological cruises while it cost the rev mr toleen 5 in hard cash detectives mcgurn and carlin were strolling in wabash avenue near van buren their__kÂ£r.iscopes scanning the thoroughfares for just such craft as that of the reverend investi gator when they observed him ap proach a comely young woman and raise his hat in a practiced fashion not at all suggestive of the pulpit shot across this bow the woman stopped and the pair turned and went toward the congress hotel they were about to enter when the pirate detectives fired a shot across their bow i am a minister of the gospel said the rev mr toleen indignantly i am merely studying the moral con ditions of Chicago gathering material for a sermon i am making a so ciological study of your great city sure we know responded the detectives tell it to judge martin in the night court he's a great sociologist too gets no pity the minister repeated his story to judge martin but the latter couldn't see it i'll make it easy he said five dollars and costs toleen said that he lived at 434 melrose street this address is a va cant lot and no one in the neigh borhood had ever heard of him he does not show in the city or tele phone directories miss fuller said that she had been a member of a theatrical company which had been stranded here judge martin discharged her when she promised to leave Chicago seymour morris sues for auto accident when seymour morris jr leads miss margaret armour of evanston to the matrimonial altar next fall there may be a special fund of 10,000 or so to furnish the flat or to pay for the honeymoon â€” if â€” anyway morris filed the declara tion yesterday in his 10,000 damage suit against leonard fish and e f andrews who he says carelessly negligently and recklessly operated an automobile in such fashion he was badly hurt . the accident happened in february 1914 in drexel boulevard bandits hold up train shoot one interantionnl newa service dlfapatch xew orleans april 23 â€” two ne groes who had not been captured up to 1 o'clock this morning held up and robbed the louisville & nash ville train from cincinnati in this city to-night shot and mortally wounded peter molly express mes senger and dropped two sticks of dynamite on the floor which did not no off the negroes secured about 50 and dropped a sack containing j 10,000 they fled when the train i crew started shooting john cudahy pioneer packer is dead at 71 veteran Chicago business man succumbs to illness of three years duration john cudahy a pioneer director of the cudahy packing company interests and long prominent in the Chicago business world died at his home 3254 michigan avenue at 11:30 o'clock last night he was seventy-one years old cudahy's death was declared by physicians to have been the result of an operation for appendicitis three years ago complications set j in almost immediately and he never regained his health he went to california three weeks ago but was forced to return to Chicago when he suffered a sudden relapse j ' surviving him are his widow mrs margaret cudahy two daugh ! ters miss elizabeth cudahy and ! mrs julia walsh and two sons i john r and gerald cudahy all of i whom are prominent in Chicago society he was a member of the union league south shore mid lothian and ulen view clubs mrs morrow buys mansion for 20,000 mrs rena bacon morrow prin cipal in one of the most sensational murder trials in the history of chi cago yesterday bought a dwelling at grand boulevard and forty-eighth place in the heart of the south side society colony paying 20,000 the grand boulevard house is in one of chicago's oldest fashionable districts among the prominent per sons still residing in that locality are judge joseph sabath 4828 grand boulevard milton c kaufman 4828 william h vehon 4824 harry c wild 2414 edward g elcock 4806 j fred arthur poor 4800 and j l kes ner 4756 l __ roosevelt advissr taken ill in Chicago james bronson reynolds of new yoik formerly secretary to mayor low and special adviser to president roosevelt on municipal and social questions was taken ill yesterday at the congress hotel his condition improved last night accompanied by his wife he expects to leave to-day for battle creek he is counsel for the american social hygiene associa tion and was to have spoken on pub lic morals before the city club yes terday elizabeth mccormick escapes auto mishap miss elizabeth mccormick daugh ter of mr and mrs r hall mccor mick 660 rush street narrowly es caped death thursday she was riding in an automobile along lake shore drive with mrs herbert e schwarz and the hitter's mother miss mccor mick leaned against a door of the auto the door flew open and she fell into the road fortunately no other cars were passing she had recov ered from the necvous shock last night mrs kellogg leaves daughter 400,000 i a daughter granddaughter and five | friends are beneficiaries of 400,000 ; left by mrs sarah h kellogg widow lof the late charles i kellogg the j income will go to lois kellogg her daughter divorced wife of pierpont isham who resumed her maiden name miss lois kellogg isham granddaughter of mrs kellogg is to inherit the estate after her mother's death i j d rockefeller in 200-mile auto ride international newa service diapateh tarrytown n y april 23 john d rockefeller is at baypond . the camp of his brother william rockefeller he drove the 200 miles in his auto and enjoyed it so well thut he intends to return the same i way on sunday lt was the longest i auto ride he has ever taken i government sued by 3 banks for war taxes Chicago institutions call levy against 40,000,000 under 1914 law unconstitutional federal state and city bonds and property not used in banking exempt they claim â€¢-â€” -- ~ - suits will test right to assess much of capital and surplus of 25,000 concerns three suits attacking the constitu tionality of the war revenue tax of 1914 so far as it affects the capital stock of banks were begun in the united states district court yester day in the name of the continental & commercial national bank the continental & commercial trust & savings bank and the hibernian banking association and involving the immunity from taxation under the act of 40,669,020 levy mayer of mayer meyer aus trian & piatt who brought suit against julius f smietanka internal revenue collector for the district of Chicago said that the case would be pushed in the district court so that it might be carried to the supreme court for immediate adjudication the taxes paid by the three insti tutions february 1 for the eight months ending june 30 1915 and which according to the declaration were wrongfully collected are con tinental & commercial national 21,657.34 continental & commer cial trust & savings 3,254 and hi bernian banking association 2,171.24 federal exemption claimed the tax assessed is one-tenth of 1 per cent a year or two-thirds of that amount for th first eight months it is operative therefore the taxes represent one-fifteenth hundredth of the total amount of federal state and municipal bonds which the banks maintain are exempt from taxation together with other property owned by the banks but not used in the banking business a part of the al leged exempted property is the con tinental ft commercial national bank building it is further alleged that the bonds under a strict interpretation also are not used in banking the banks hold these properties inherently immune from federal taxation the declarations state that united states commissioner of internal revenue csborn and collector smie tai'ua made tax assessment for the amounts specified and required the banks to pay them under protest that on march 5 a demand for a re fund was made which was refused march 29 affects 23,000 banks this is the first attack of the kind uopn the 1914 revenue act said mayer last evening the cases are test suits and upon their final de cision will depend the right of the government to tax a large part of the capital and surplus of the 25,000 banks in the united states lt is estimated that several hun dred millions of dollars of capital of the different banks in the united states it invested in securities that are tax exempt and that are not used or employed in the business of the various banks an effort will be made to bring the cases to a speedy adjudication in the district court so that the side that loses can take the matter to the su preme court for final action taxes for the year beginning july 1 1915 are due at that time and the banks are especially anxious to get a final verdict on the constitutionality of the revenue act before then four held for theft of diamond on street detectives sheehan doran and al dus who went on the run to west ; twelfth street and south ashland boulevard yesterday where a fight i was reported to be in progress were i met by james shannon 1214 laflin | street who said he had been beaten by five men and robbed of a diamond i pin the detectives arrested four ' men rockefeller jr called brains of mine strike investigating committee to recall him on discovery of pointed evidence international rn-a service diapateh kansas city mo april 23 letters and telegrams exchanged between john d rockefeller jr and officials of the colorado fuel & iron company which to-day came into the possession of frank p walsh chairman of the united states commission on industrial re lations contain revelations bearing on the recent colorado coal strike of so startling a nature as to de cide walsh to recall rockefeller to the stand when the commission re sumes its public hearings in wash ington may 4 the correspondence shows mr walsh said to-night that john d rockefeller jr who testified that he had kept his hands off the situation was ln reality the directing mind that he exercised a personal in fluence which extended even to the state house in denver and pre sumed to dictate letters that went out to the president of the united states and to the governors of states over the signature of the governor of colorado that he withheld from the de partment of labor in washington information asked for when secre tary wilson sought to avert the strike before it began thrilling novel is written by women it is a thrilling adventure story â€” the novel written by the members of the neighbors club the chapters which had been as signed to individuals of the organiza tion some weeks ago were read in yesterday's meeting in the home cf mrs h j browning 602 west six tieth place the production is said to back conan doyle and katherine green off the mystery story map the novel was named the count's adventure it is a mystery story with two love affairs mrs edward hart jones wrote the introduction and mrs joseph salkeld the conclusion u s officers back from german front international ncwa scrvice dispatch new york april 23 â€” captain s d rockenbach united states cavalry and captain s g shartle united states coast artillery military ob servers with the german army recent ly recalled by president wilson were passengers aboard the holland-amer ican liner rotterdam to-day both denied that there was any reason for their recall other than that their duties were over mystery surround ed the arrival of p m kuehnrich a special courier from the united states embassy at berlin en route to wash ington it was said he carried im portant messages huerta is barred from white house international news service diapateh washington april 23.â€”victori ano huerta will not be received at the white house should be apply there to-morrow this information was obtained to-day from an author itative but unofficial source huerta was severe in his personal comments ] on the president according to the | j diplomatic advices received oonfi j i dentially at the time huerta was in i control in mexico and mr wilson is l thought to have resented this ultimatum gent to china by japan pekin april 23 dr hioki jap anese minister has handed to the chi nese foreign minister a demand for a complete acceptance of japan's re vised proposals with the understand ing that otherwise negotiations will be broken off immediately japan has offered to enter into further ne gotiations on minor points in the event of a full acceptance women in denmark win fight for vote ' international news service diapateh copenhagen april 23 the j danish diet adopted to-day an l amendment to the constitution giv ing the vote to women and conferring upon them the right of election to the diet this amendment must be passed by the new diet to be elected next month before it becomes ef fective germans victory equal to soissons â€” french forced back five miles and across yser canal four towns and 1,600 soldiers are captured near ypres allies attribute defeat to use of asphyxiating gases sir john french claiming that german bombs violate laws of war kaiser pours flood of troops across belgium apparently staking all on new drive in the famous ypres salient international news service dispatch london april 23 the germans north of y'pres have forced the allies back five miles the loss is guard edly admitted in reports from paris and from general sir john french berlin statements assert the claim of gains unqualifiedly adding that four villages â€” langemarck steenstrate het sas and pilken â€” were captured in the new german drive 1,600 french and english soldiers made prisoner and the western bank of the canal seized by the germans the new german offensive waa launched on the northern angle of the famous ypres salient scene of many terrific battles during the fighting preceding the closing ln of winter german critics set this up as tha german reply to neuve chapelle it measures up with the german victory at soissons they assert british and french reports dis count whatever glory the germans may claim from the victory by tho charge that it was gained through the use of appliances for the pro duction of asphyxiating gases which is prohibited under the terms of tho hague conventions hill 60 fiery volcano fighting continued about hill no 60 it was the most terrific two days of warfare since neuve chapelle the carnage was terrible batteries blazed fire shell and death one min ute and the next were themselves blown into shattered tangles of charred timber and twisted metal with writhing masses of humanity scattered about trenches were blasted and made humanly untenable j while their late occupants wera i mowed down by machine gun fire i the din was horrifying deafening â€” i hell broke loose the paris afternoon statement as j serts that the french were forced to j retire to the tser canal they pre i viously held positions five miles ih advance of the canal bank the night i report declares no grave conse quences have been suffered from tha german attack and that french and british forces have made gains to the ! northward between steenstraate and j the ypres-poel capelle road | germans staking all telegraphing the daily express from the belgian frontier percival * phillips says the entire area west of the brus.es courtrai road is said to be literally flooded with germans messages reaching me by indirect routes from antwerp and brussels describe a con tinuous passage of roop trains from eastern belgium those v antwerp are leaving there after nightfalv the germans appear to be stak j ing everything on this tremendous i | effort m violate warfare.savs klli:m the press bureau to-night madefl public the following dispatch fromw sir john french under to-day's date 1 yesterday evening the enemy de veloped an attack on the french troops on our left in the neighbor , i hood of bixschoote and langemarck north of the ypres salient this at i tack was preceded by a heavy bom-a ' bardment the enemy at tha samefl time making use of a number of ap-h pliances for the production of asfl phxyiating gas fl the quantity produced indicates long and deliberate preparation for 1 the employment of devices contrary i to the terms of the hague omven i tinn to ti'hiobfct fmy subscribed the false made by q*m the weather Chicago and vicinity â€” fair to-Â«ln.v and probably to-morrow continued warm moderate aouth erly winda . , yesterday's temperatures i highest st lowest 64 average 74 it 1